Governing Through Technology - Information Artefacts and Social Practice

Information produced and disseminated by an interlocking ecology of computer-based systems and artifacts currently provides the essential means for planning organizational operations and controlling organizational performances. This book describes the vital importance that digital information acquires in restructuring organizations.

List of contents

Technology as an Object of Social Enquiry The Regulative Regime of Technology Boundaries and Freedoms: Re-opening the Black Box of Technology Deconstructing Information Packages: Efficiency versus Governance Control and Complexity in a Connected World Cognitive Foundations of Work: The Workplace as Information Information Tokens and Reality: A Parable of the Internet

About the author

JANNIS KALLINIKOS is professor in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics, UK. His current research focuses on the study of technological information in all its forms (text, voice, image) and digital formats and the implications its diffusion carries for organizations and institutions.

Summary

Information produced and disseminated by an interlocking ecology of computer-based systems and artifacts currently provides the essential means for planning organizational operations and controlling organizational performances. This book describes the vital importance that digital information acquires in restructuring organizations.

Product details

• Authors: J. Kallinikos, Jannis Kallinikos
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9781349327898
• ISBN: 978-1-349-32789-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 9 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 276 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 160 p.
• Series: Technology, Work and Globalization; Technology, Work and Globaliza; Technology, Work and Globalization; Technology, Work and Globaliza
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business; Management, B, Media Studies, Planning, Organization, Communication, Knowledge Management, Organizational theory & behaviour, Innovation/Technology Management, Media and Communication, Research & development management, Management science, Industrial Management, Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Innovation and Technology Management